@@CHAP@@ THE SYNOPSIS OF THE FIRST PARTITION.
In diseases consider Sect. 1 Memb. 1.
Their Causes. Subsect. 1.
Or
Definition, Member, Division, Subsect. 2.
Impulsive;
Instrumental;
Of the body 300, which are
Or
of the head or mind. Subsect. 3.
sin, concupiscence, &c.
intemperance, all second causes, &c.
Epidemical; as Plague, Plica, &c.
Or
Particular; as Gout, Dropsy, &c.
In disposition; as all perturbations, evil affection, &c.
Or
Habits, as Subsect. 4.
In diseases consider Sect. 1 Memb. 1.
Dotage.
Frenzy.
Madness.
Ecstasy.
Lycanthropia.
Chorus sancti Viti.
Hydrophobia.
Possession or obsession of Devils.
Melancholy. See ♈
♈
Melancholy: in which consider
Its Equivocations, in Disposition, Improper, &c., Subsect. 5.
Memb. 2. To its explication, a digression of anatomy, in which observe parts of Subsect. 1.
Memb. 3. Its definition, name, difference, Subsect. 1.
The part and parties, affected, affection, &c., Subsect. 2.
The matter of melancholy, natural, unnatural, &c., Subsect. 3.
Species, or kinds, which are Subsect. 4.
Its Causes in general. Sect. 2, A.
Its Symptoms or signs. Sect. 3, B.
Its prognostics or indications. Sect. 4, C.
Its Cures; the subject of the second Partition.
Body hath parts Subsect. 2.
Or
Soul and his faculties, as
Contained as
or
containing
Humours, 4, Blood, Phlegm, &c.
Spirits; vital, natural, animal.
Similar; spermatical, or flesh, bones, nerves, &c., Subsect. 3.
Dissimilar; brain, heart, liver, &c., Subsect. 4.
Vegetal. Subsect. 5.
Sensible. Subsect. 6, 7, 8.
Rational. Subsect. 9, 10, 11.
Of the head alone, Hypochondriacal, or windy melancholy. Of the whole body
with their several causes, symptoms, prognostics, cures.
Proper to parts, as
Or
Indefinite; as Love-melancholy, the subject of the third partition.
A
Sect. 2. Causes of Melancholy are either
General, as Memb. 1.
Supernatural
Or
Natural
As from God immediately, or by second causes, Subsect. 1.
Or from the devil immediately, with a digression of the nature of spirits and devils, Subsect. 2.
Or mediately by Magicians, Witches, Subsect. 3.
Primary as stars, proved by Aphorisms, signs from Physiognomy, Metoposcopy, Chiromancy, Subsect. 4.
or
Secondary, as
Congenite, inward from
Or
Outward, or adventitious, which are
Old age, temperament, Subsect. 5.
Parents, it being an hereditary disease, Subsect. 6.
Evident, outward, remote, adventitious, as
Or
Continent, inward, antecedent, nearest. Memb. 5 Sect. 2.
Necessary, see ♉
Nurses, Subsect. 1.
Education, Subsect. 2.
Terrors, affrights, Subsect. 3.
Scoffs, calumnies, bitter jests, Subsect. 4.
Loss of liberty, servitude, imprisonment, Subsect. 5.
Poverty and want, Subsect. 6.
An heap of other accidents, death of friends, loss, &c., Subsect. 7.
Not necessary, as Memb. 4 Sect. 2.
In which the body works on the mind, and this malady is caused by precedent diseases; as agues, pox, &c., or temperature innate, Subsect. 1.
Or by particular parts distempered, as brain, heart, spleen, liver, Mesentery, Pylorus, stomach, &c., Subsect. 2.
Particular to the three species. See ♊
♊
Particular causes Sect. 2 Memb. 5.
Of head-Melancholy are, Subsect. 3.
Of hypochondriacal, or windy melancholy are, Subsect. 4.
Over all the body are, Subsect. 5.
Inward
Or
Outward
Inward
Or
Outward
Inward
Or
Outward
Innate humour, or from distemperature adust.
A hot brain, corrupted blood in the brain.
Excess of Venery, or defect.
Agues, or some precedent disease.
Fumes arising from the stomach, &c.
Heat of the Sun immoderate.
A blow on the head.
Overmuch use of hot wines, spices, garlic, onions, hot baths, overmuch waking, &c.
Idleness, solitariness, or overmuch study, vehement labour, &c.
Passions, perturbations, &c.
Default of spleen, belly, bowels, stomach, mesentery, meseraic veins, liver, &c.
Months, or haemorrhoids stopped, or any other ordinary evacuation.
Those six non-natural things abused.
Liver distempered, stopped, overhot, apt to engender melancholy, temperature innate.
Bad diet, suppression of haemorrhoids, &c., and such evacuations, passions, cares, &c., those six non-natural things abused.
Bread; coarse and black, &c.
⎨
⎧
⎩
Drink; thick, thin, sour, &c.
Water unclean, milk, oil, vinegar, wine, spices, &c.
Flesh
Herbs, Fish, &c.
Parts; heads, feet, entrails, fat, bacon, blood, &c.